Knowledge Database

Toolkits and guides

• Toolkit on Stakeholder Engagement for the Implementation of UNTOC (2020) |AR|EN|FR|SP|
• Guide for civil society community engaging with the UNTOC Review Mechanism (2020) AR|EN|FR|SP|

United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

• United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) (2000)
• Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
• Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (2000)
• Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Treaty Series (2001)
• Travaux Préparatoires of the negotiations for the elaboration of the UNTOC
• Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Needs Assessment Tools

Conference of the Parties to the UNTOC

• Rules of Procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
• Background and practical information:
  • Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to UNTOC
  • Practical information about the participation of intergovernmental organizations
  • Practical information about the participation of non-governmental organizations
  • Important information about the submission of credentials
  • Implementation of article 32.3(d)
  • Practical information about funding for participants

UNTOC Review mechanism

• Resolution 9/1 – Establishment of the Mechanism for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto

• Self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto

• The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) Review Mechanism - Video 

• Engaging Non-Governmental Stakeholders in the Self-Assessment Phase of the UNTOC Review Mechanism – Video

Legislative Guide

Glossaries of terms of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols

• Conventions
• Firearms
• Smuggling
• Trafficking

Legislative guides for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto

• Introduction and the List of Experts
• Legislative guide for the Organized Crime Convention
• Legislative guide for the Trafficking in Persons Protocol
• Legislative guide for the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
• Legislative guide for the Firearms Protocol
• Legislative guide for the Trafficking in Persons Protocol (2020)
• Model Legaslative Provision against Trafficking in Persons (2020)
• The Landscape of Criminalization 1: Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment
• Practical Guide on Alternative Development and the Environment

Tools

• SHERLOC knowledge management portal
• UNODC eLearning Platform
• Cybercrime Repository
• Smuggling of Migrants Knowledge Portal
• Human Trafficking Knowledge Portal
• Drug Control Repository
• Human Trafficking Case Law Database
• International Drugs Control Conventions and Commentaries
• Model Laws and Treaties

Thematic Resources

Trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants

• Smuggling of Migrants Knowledge Portal
• Human Trafficking Knowledge Portal
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2022)
• Special Points of Interest
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2020)
• Compendium of Promising Practices on Public-Private Partnerships to Prevent and Counter Trafficking in Persons AR|EN|FR|SP

Tools

• Case Digest on Evidential Issues in Trafficking in Persons Cases (2017)
• Human Trafficking Toolkit for Journalists (2017)
• Assessment Toolkit: Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Organ Removal (2015)
• Assessment Guide to the Criminal Justice Response to the Smuggling of Migrants (2012)
• International Framework for Action to implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
• Toolkit to Combat Smuggling of Migrants (2010)
• Needs Assessment Toolkit on the Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking (2010)
• International Framework for Action to Implement the Trafficking in Persons Protocol (2010)
• UNODC Model Law against Trafficking in Persons (2010)
• UNODC Model Law against the Smuggling of Migrants (2010)
• Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians
• Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2nd edition, October 2008)
• Psychological Care for Women in Shelter Homes (India, 2011)
• ASEAN Handbook on International Legal Cooperation in Trafficking in Persons Cases
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) on Investigation of Crimes of Trafficking for Forced Labour (2008, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia)
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) on Investigating Crimes of Trafficking for Commercial Sexual Exploitation (2007, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia)
• Manual for Training Police on Anti-Human Trafficking (2008, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia)
• Training Manual for Prosecutors on Confronting Human Trafficking (2008, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia)
• Journey to Justice: Manual on Psychosocial Intervention
• Trafficking Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation: Handbook for Law Enforcement Agencies in India (UNIFEM, UNODC 2007)
• UNODC Toolkit for mainstreaming Human Rights and Gender Equality into criminal justice interventions to address trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants (2021)
• Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants

• In-Depth Training Manual on Investigating and Prosecuting the Smuggling of Migrants (2011)
• Anti-Human Trafficking Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners (2008)
• Basic Training Manual on Investigating and Prosecuting the Smuggling of Migrants (2010)
• Training Manual: Assistance for the Implementation of the ECOWAS Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons
• Compendium on Best Practices on Anti-Human Trafficking by Law Enforcement Agencies
• Compendium on Best Practices on Anti-Human Trafficking by Non-Governmental Organizations

Firearms

• The Arms Trade Treaty (2013) See General Assembly resolution 67/234 B.

Other instruments

• Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (2001).
• International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons (2005).
• Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons A/CONF.192/PC/20

• Technical Guide to the Implementation of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms
• Global Firearms Programme

Issue papers

• Supporting Evidence based Action to Counter Illicit Firearms Trafficking and related Forms of Crime
• The Firearms Protocol and the Arms Trade Treaty: Divergence or Complementarity?

Technical tools

• Model Law against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition
• Ratification Kit
• Comparative Analysis of Global Instruments on Firearms and other Conventional Arms: Synergies for Implementation
• Monitoring Illicit Arms Flows Initiative

Cybercrime

• Cybercrime Repository
• Study on the Effects of New Information Technologies on the Abuse and Exploitation of Children
• Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes: Report of the Secretary-General

Falsified medical products

• Combating Falsified Medical Product-Related Crime: A Guide to Good Legislative Practices

Youth & Gender

• Education for Justice (E4J) Resource LibraryEducation for Justice (E4J) Fact Sheet
• Youth Crime Prevention through Sport: “Line Up Live Up” Resources
• Youth Crime Prevention through Sport: Insights from the UNODC “Line Up Live Up” Pilot Programme
• UNODC Youth Report: A Programmatic Overview
• UNODC Youth Empowerment Accelerator Framework

• Toolkit on Mainstreaming Gender and Human Rights in the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

RESEARCH

Covid-19

• The impact of COVID-19 on organized crime
• COVID-19-related Trafficking of Medical Products as a Threat to Public Health
• How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective
• How COVID-19 restrictions and the economic consequences are likely to impact migrant smuggling and cross-border trafficking in persons to Europe and North America
• COVID-19 and the drug supply chain: from production and trafficking to use
• How COVID-19 is changing the world – a statistical perspective. Volume II
• Ensuring Access to Justice in the Context of COVID-19
• CYBERCRIME AND COVID19: Risks and Responses – AFG | EN | ES | FR | RU | ZH
• MONEY-LAUNDERING AND COVID19: Profit and Loss – AFG | EN | ES | FR | RU | ZH
• Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Trafficking in Persons (2020) - AR | EN | ES | FR | PR | RU
• Research brief: Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on homicide and property crime
• UNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief: Possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trafficking in opiates and methamphetamine originating in Afghanistan

Transnational Organised Crime

• Global study on homicide (2019) (Booklet 1, Booklet 2, Booklet 3, Booklet 4, Booklet 5, Booklet 6)
• Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants (2018)
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2018)
• Global Study on Firearms Trafficking (2020)
• World Wildlife Crime Report (2020)
• World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species (2016)
• Transnational Organized Crime in the Pacific: A Threat Assessment (2016)
• The Afghan Opiate Trade and Africa - A Baseline Assessment (2016)
• Drug Money: the illicit proceeds of opiates trafficked on the Balkan route (2015) (Executive summary)
• Afghan opiate trafficking through the southern route (2015)
• Impacts of drug use on users and their families in Afghanistan (2014)
• The Illicit Drug Trade through South-Eastern Europe (2014)
• Transnational Organized Crime in Eastern Africa: A Threat Assessment (2013)
• Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat Assessment (2013)
• Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa: A Threat Assessment (2013)
• Misuse of Licit Trade for Opiate Trafficking in Western and Central Asia: A Threat Assessment (2012)
• Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment (2012) (Executive summary)
• Opiate flows through Northern Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Threat Assessment (2012)
• Organized Crime and Instability in Central Africa: A Threat Assessment (2011)
• Estimating illicit financial flows resulting from drug trafficking and other transnational organized crimes (2011)
• The Global Afghan Opium Trade: A Threat Assessment (2011)
• Research paper: The Transatlantic Cocaine Market (2011)
• The Globalization of crime - A transnational organized crime threat assessment (2010)
• Crime and instability: case studies of transnational threats (2010)
• Addiction, crime and insurgency - the transnational threat of Afghan opium (2009)
• Transnational Trafficking and the Rule of Law in West Africa: A Threat Assessment (2009)
• Drug Trafficking as a Security Threat in West Africa
• The Threat of Narco-trafficking in the Americas (2008)
• Cocaine Trafficking in West Africa: The threat to stability and development
  (with special reference to Guinea-Bissau) 2007
• (with special reference to Guinea-Bissau) 2007
• Organized Crime and Irregular Migration from Africa to Europe (2006)
• The Drug Nexus in Africa (1999)
• Economic and Social Consequences of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (1998)
• Volatile Substance Abuse (1997)
• Drug Money in a Changing World: Economic Reform and Criminal Finance (1996)
• Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: A Global Review (1996)
• The Social Impact of Drug Abuse (1995)
• Drugs and Development (1994)
• Supply of and Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1996)
• World Drug Report 2021 (Booklet 1, Booklet 2, Booklet 3, Booklet 4, Booklet 5)
• World Drug Report 2022 (Booklet 1, Booklet 2, Booklet 3, Booklet 4, Booklet 5)
• World Drug Report 2023
• World Drug Report 2024
• Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2020)
• Issues Paper - Interlinkages between Trafficking in Persons and Marriage (2020)
• Thematic Paper - Countering Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations (2018)
• Issue Paper on the International Definition of Trafficking in Persons (2018)
• Transnational Organized Crime in Southeast Asia: Evolution, Growth and Impact (2019)
• Global Study on Homocide (2013)
• Global Study on Firearms (2015)
• Measuring Organized Crime in the Western Balkans
• At the Crossroads of Licit and Illicit - Tramadol and other pharmaceutical opioids trafficking in West Africa
• Europol's and UNODC's Cocain Insights: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, Issue 4
• Conflict in Ukraine: Key Evidence on Risks of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants
• Prison Matters: Global prison population and trends A focus on rehabilitation
• Caribbean Gangs: Drugs, Firearms, and Gangs Networks in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago
• Impact of Transnational Organized Crime on Stability and Development in the Sahel
• Global analysis on crimes that affect the environment
• 2024 World Wildlife Crime Report
• Assessment of the response to illicit weapons trafficking in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea
• Strong families: a new family skills training programme for challenged and humanitarian settings: a single-arm intervention tested in Afghanistan
• Global Study on Homicide 2023
• Gold trafficking in the Sahel
• Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide) - Global estimates of female intimate partner/family-related homicides in 2022
• Smuggling of migrants in the Sahel
• Fuel Trafficking in the Sahel
• Firearms trafficking in the Sahel
• TRAFFICKING IN MEDICAL PRODUCTS IN THE SAHEL
• UNODC Global Report on Corruption in Sport - Executive summary
• Global Report on Tra̪fficking in Persons 2022

International Cooperation

• Manual on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition English - French - Spanish - Russian - Arabic - Chinese
• Manual on International Cooperation for the Purposes of Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime English - Spanish

Crime & Criminal Justice

• Statistics on crime (data uploaded on 12 October 2018)
• Statistics on criminal justice (data uploaded on 12 October 2018)

• Data and Metadata from Crime Victimization Surveys (2004-2014)
• Special Data Collections on Persons held in Prisons (2010-2014)
• Administration of Justice (2011-2013)
• Statistics on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance (2010-2012)
• Special Data Collection on Persons held in Prisons (2010-2012)
• Environmental Crime (2006-2011)

• Crime and Criminal Justice (1970 -2002)
• Drug-related crime (2003-2008)

• International classification of crimes for statistical purposes (ICCS)
• United Nations Survey of Crime Trends
  and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
  (UN-CTS)
• Standards for criminal justice statistics systems
  (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
• Study on international and EU standards on crime statistics
• Manual on victimization surveys
  (French, Spanish, Russian )
• Juvenile Justice indicators (French, Spanish)

Reports

• Global progress report on Sustainable Development Goal 16 indicators: A wake-up call for action on peace, justice and inclusion
• Global Progress Report on Sustainable Development Goal 16 Indicators